Tom Hanks

Sandra Bullock

Thomas Horn

Viola Davis

John Goodman

Jeffrey Wright

Zoe Caldwell

Max von Sydow

Dennis Hearn

Paul Klementowicz

Julian Tepper

Caleb Reynolds

Stephen McKinley Henderson

Lorna Guity Pruce

Hazelle Goodman

Bernadette Drayton

David Latham

Marty Krzywonos

Jim Norton

Carmen M. Herlihy

Ryka Dottavio

Chloe Roe

Diane Cheng

Gregory Korostishevsky

Adrian Martinez

Marco Verna

Brandon Jeffers

Martin E. Brens

Gustavo Brens

Brooke Bloom

Rene Ojeda

Madison Arnold

Henry Morales-Ballet

Bryse Gregory

William Youmans

Kit Flanagan

Jenson Smith

Ray Iannicelli

Miguel Jarquin-Moreland

Benjamin McCracken

Malachi Weir

John Joseph Gallagher

Sam K. Kaufman

Stephen Kunken

Kim Rideout

Chloe Elaine Scharf

Eva Kaminsky

Chris Hardwick

Kate Levy

Stephanie Kurtzuba

Catherine Curtin

Lola Pashalinski

Clayton James Mackay

Bailey Grey

Jaiden Kaine

Mark Morettini

Francesca Murdoch

John Quilty

Bill Walters

Steven Weisz

Stephen Daldry

Eric Roth

Jonathan Safran Foer

Alexandre Desplat

Gary Archer

Don Hewitt Sr.

Blaise Corrigan

Deb Dyer

Scott Rudin

David Davenport

Ann Roth

Claire Simpson

Chris Menges

K.K. Barrett

Peter Rogness

George DeTitta Jr.

Celia D. Costas

Mark Roybal

Nora Skinner

Eli Bush

Tarik Karam

Jayne-Ann Tenggren

Danny Michael

Heather Gross

Skip Lievsay

Paul Urmson

Blake Leyh

Renuka Ballal

Mitchell Ferm

Kevin Scott Mack

Megan Asbee

Martha Smith

Louise McCarthy

Michael Auszura

I. Javier Ameijeiras

Drama

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Warner Bros. Pictures

Scott Rudin Productions

United States of America

Filipe Manuel Neto

**The human need to find meaning in the death of a loved one.**

I confess that I didn't really know what I was going to find when I started watching this movie. I wasn't expecting much, even though I was aware that it was a film about the September 11 attacks, and that it had some actors that I respect, and I like to see. Perhaps on purpose, the film begins in a heavy and slow way, and it is not very easy to go beyond the initial half hour.

However, the film improves a lot as we get to know the main character, a boy whose father died in the attacks and who is trying to deal with this loss in the best way possible. Whatever the age or situation, the loss of a parent is always dramatic. Believe me, dear reader, who is following me so patiently in these lines, I have been feeling it in my skin during the last few months, since I lost my beloved mother recently, and I believe that this personal circumstance had an influence on the way I ended up seeing myself in the boy, and in the emotional and moving way he tries to deal with grief and absence. He believes his father left him one last "treasure hunt" around a mysterious key, and he struggles to see meaning in his father's death, and in finding the key. It sounds childish, but allow me to be honest, I confess that I too, in the silence of my suffering and pain, felt and still feel the need to find some reason, some order in the midst of random chaos. Perhaps we, human beings, cannot accept that the people we love so much... simply die. And maybe we're right in not accepting just that...

By that, I mean that the horrible tragedy that happened in New York made sense in itself? No... evil is meaningless, but it doesn't need to make sense. What I refuse to think is that all those people died in vain. I believe that the American people, and all of us as a Western society, find meaning in everything that has happened, and we see those people as victims of unspeakable cruelty, which poignantly reminds us how vulnerable we are to the mind of a madman, vile and determined enough. I believe that each family member who lost someone there found a very personal meaning in their loss, and I hope this helped in the task of dealing with what happened.

Despite being very young, I liked the work developed by Thomas Horn. He did everything well, and he gives his character a naivety that is never childish or lacking in sense and intelligence, quite the opposite. Tom Hanks is, as is almost always the case, impeccable and gives the boy's father an aura of familiarity and sympathy of his own, which the actor knows how to use very well. Likewise, the charismatic and professional Sandra Bullock did a very interesting job in the role of the mother. Despite being nominated for an Oscar, I think Max Von Sydow has done much better and more complete work. Even so, I liked the way he was able to express himself and communicate without using a single word. Zoe Caldwell also did a good job, albeit in a much more restrained register than the others. On the other hand, I thought that John Goodman, Viola Davis and Jeffrey Wright are all very underused.

The film covers several places in New York, and it is not necessary to have visited the iconic city to recognize them very easily, and appreciate the friendly way in which the film takes advantage of them and gives them shine and beauty. The cinematography helped a lot at this point, with a very well worked light, color and brightness, and a good post-editing of the images.

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) Trailer HD - Tom Hanks Movie